https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/08/08/extinction-by-traditional-chinese-medicine-an-environmental-disaster/#1708079c5bd3
https://news.vice.com/article/china-outlaws-the-eating-of-tiger-penis-rhino-horn-and-other-endangered-animal-products
Sorry this one’s not as funny as the others. I read about the Andean bear, which is really cute, becoming endangered because of poaching and I got sad.
It really made no sense that Chinese Traditional Medicine would claim some bear on a continent they didn’t know existed until a few hundred years ago has magical gall bladder that’s worth forking over $10,000. They could literally just fly to whatever country and get a high priced doctor instead.
Anyways, I figuired if anyone deserves to be made fun of, it’s species-extinction-causing, tiger-penis-eating poachers.